OUR AVINTERS. 1Q3 



OUR WINTERS. 



We have been at considerable pains to get as accurate in- 

 formation as possible, as to our winters, before we came into 

 the state ; and our own recollection is relied on, for a pe- 

 riod of twenty-five winters past. We proceed to state our 

 information, as well as our recollections, as to the winters 

 since 1785. 



1785 mild. 1799 severe. 1813 cold.* 1826 mild. 



1786 mild. 1800 severe. 1814 mild. 1827 mild. 



1787 mild. 1801 mild. 1815 mild. 1828 mild. 



1788 mild. 1802 mild. 1816 mild. 1829 cold. 



1789 mild. 1803 mild. 1817 mild. 1830 cold. 



1790 mild. 1804 mild. 1818 mild. 1831 cold. 



1791 severe. 1805 mild. 1819 mild. 1832 mild. 



1792 severe. 1806 mild. 1820 mild. 1833 mild. 



1793 mild. 1807 mild. 1821 mild. 1834 mild. 



1794 mild. 1808 severe. 1822 mild. 1835 mild. 



1795 mild. 1809 severe. 1823 mild. 1836 mild. 



1796 severe. 1810 mild. 1824 mild. 1837 mild. 



1797 severe. 1811 mild. 1825 mild. 1838 mild. 



1798 severe. 1812 mild. 



The winter of 1791-2 was severe, and Governor Sargeant 

 computed the snow that fell in the month of January, at twen- 

 ty-four inches! On the 23d of January 1792, the thermometer 

 sunk seven degrees below zero. The winter of 1796-7 is 

 considered the severest one ever known in this state. On the 

 morning of the 8th of January, 1797, the thermometer sunk 

 eighteen degrees below zero. During that winter, the ther- 

 mometer sunk below zero seven other mornings. The winters 

 of 1791 and 1792, were quite cold, but not severe, like 1796 

 and 1797. During these last mentioned years, the Ohio was 

 frozen over, four weeks, and frost occurred so late as the 

 twenty-fourth day of May. 



In the spring of 1834, we had a frost all over Ohio, Ken- 

 tucky and Indiana, as late as the sixteenth day of May, which 



* Snow twenty-four inches deep at Fort Wayne. 



